let-downs
Hopes dashed flat
Let-downs is the plural of let-down, a disappointment or failure to meet expectations: The sequel was one of the year's biggest let-downs.
The term comes from the feeling of deflation when something promising falls short.
In breastfeeding, let-down refers to the milk ejection reflex—a neutral physiological term unrelated to disappointment.
Humiliating public failure
- debacleSudden, complete failure
- flopComplete commercial failure
- bustFailure or sculpture
- dudFailed device or effort
washout · non-event · fizzle · damp squib · blunder · mishap · misfire · botch
Bitter loss of faith
- dismayDistressed loss of courage
- bummerDisappointing experience
- downerDispiriting experience or thing
- regretSorrow over past actions
dissatisfaction · discontent · heartbreak · betrayal · grievance · resentment · frustration · unfulfilled
Sustained decrease in prices
- flatnessAbsence of slope
- bathosDeflating descent in tone
- comedownHumiliating loss of status
- disappointmentSadness from unmet expectations
underwhelming · anticlimactic · hollow victory · empty feeling · overpromised · underdelivered · falling flat · petering out
State of lowness
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- crestfallenSad from disappointment
- disheartenedLost confidence or hope
- dispiritedHaving lost heart
demoralized · gloom · melancholy · heaviness · sinking feeling · gutted · bummed out · downcast
fiasco
Humiliating public failure
dud · washout · non-event · fizzle · damp squib · blunder · mishap · misfire · botch · bungle
disillusionment
Bitter loss of faith
regret · dissatisfaction · discontent · heartbreak · betrayal · grievance · resentment · frustration · unfulfilled · unmet expectations
deflation
Sustained decrease in prices
disappointment · underwhelming · anticlimactic · hollow victory · empty feeling · overpromised · underdelivered · falling flat · petering out
dejection
State of lowness
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- crestfallenSad from disappointment
- disheartenedLost confidence or hope
dispirited · demoralized · gloom · melancholy · heaviness · sinking feeling · gutted · bummed out · downcast · low spirits
let-downstriumphs
Overwhelming victories
successes · winners · hits · sure things · overachievers